Brass Monkeys

Brass Monkeys

@brassmonkeys.bsky.social

Pro-Eu Lancastrian. Radical Lefty. Anti-Tory. Pissed off with Labour. Abhors Reform. Atheist Republican. Sarcasm, Swearing & Schadenfreude. Enemy of the people. This snowflake's an avalanche.

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Richard Rice on Radio 5, blithely saying that scrapping next zero would save billions, that GDPR is 'ridiculous' legislation and that energy certificates aren't required. Absolutely no pushback/follow-up at all from the interviewer.

Absolute scum.

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her ยฃ1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

Lots of media chatter this morning about increasing defence spending. I can't see why the armed forces don't just have a sponsored walk or run a marathon to raise money for guns and bombs. That's what we all have to do to raise money for schools and hospitals.

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Any man with style knows you leave the bottom button of a double-breasted jacket undone. They are cut to be worn this way. Otherwise, you look like a repressed, buttoned-up turkey...

Dear Canada. Don't fuck about. Turn off their power, gas and water. Close the border. Sanction all US trade. Impose a travel ban, close your airspace and ocean routes and deport all US citizens. Front foot and elbows up, you lovely people

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is back to threatening statehood for Canada: "We lose $90 billion. I would say that's a little too much for the privilege of having people live through very cold weather ... I don't think they have a choice."

If Trump thinks this is bad - wait until he sees the documentary the Beeb will make once they've wiped the floor with him.

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social

In troubled times Trumpโ€™s attempt to sue the BBC ... which is backfiring on him quite spectacularly... brings both hope and amusement newrepublic.com/post/216805/...

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You don't have to believe Brexit was a mistake to believe rejoining the EU would be the right decision now. 2016 was about the future people imagined then. 2026 is about the future we can choose today. We're allowed to make a different choice.

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Tumble weed across legacy media about ITV's exposรฉ of Reform. Can you imagine the hysteria if an SNP councillor advocated for concentration camps or a Muslim Labour candidate said he wants to shoot MPs he considers traitors? The Mail front pages, Telegraph thinkpieces, and somber Today interviews?

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The core Sovereign Grant for King Charles from public purse will rise to ยฃ99.9m (from 2027/28). 93% increase from ยฃ51.8m in 2024/25. 65% higher in real terms than in 2016/17. Did your income rise at that rate? 25.3m people live below minimum income standard. We are in it all together, aren't we

leftfootforward.orgRoyal financial privileges show that we are not in it togetherThis week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of ยฃ99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the ยฃ51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...

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"There was a time when men devoted their thought to machines, in the hope that they would make them free. But this only allowed other men with machines to enslave them." No that's not an AI prediction, that's from the book Dune printed in 1965.

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When a clown moves into a palace, the clown does not become king. The palace becomes a circus." ๐ŸŽช when a pig moves into the palace, the floor is covered in shit.

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My GP is Indian and my dentist is Iranian. When I needed A & E earlier this year and summer last year I was treated by all sorts of nationalities. We should be on our knees thanking these people in both medicine and the care system for staying. Those racist cunts should be denied any NHS treatment.

Just out for a walk. Sitting in my regular country cafe, and two couple having a loud conversation about how they can't get a hospital appointment or find a dentist because they're all 'looking after them asylum seekers'. These cunts walk amongst us. Brazen, emboldened. Make racism shameful again.

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New Yorkers challenged HSI Nazi agents face-to-faceโ€”and the agents got scared. They ran away like the cowards they are. This happened near the scene where ICE shot Oscar Belgal while trying to execute him and his child. Community resistance deserves an audience. Repost this everywhere.

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โ€œIf you donโ€™t like public executions just donโ€™t watch itโ€ says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Time to sanction the USA. Cut all trade ties, deport all diplomats, troops and US citizens, take control of - and close all embassies and bases and terminate all commercial contracts. Seize all assets. Do to them what the world did to Russia. They are clearly allied with them and a danger.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putinโ€™s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.